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When DEI Meets the FCA: What Employers Need to Know About the DOJ’s Civil Rights Fraud Initiative
Episode 376 -- DOJ's Unicat Settlement and the Future Look of Trade Enforcement Actions
False Claims Act Insights - Bitter Pills: DOJ Targets Pharmacies for FCA Enforcement
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10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending June 21, 2025
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Understanding the DOJ's Recent Corporate Enforcement Policy Changes
Compliance Tip of the Day – New FCPA Enforcement Memo – What Does it Mean?
Daily Compliance News: June 17, 2025, The JBS Goes Public Edition
False Claims Act Insights - Will Recent Leadership Changes Lead to FCA Enforcement Policy Changes?
All Things Investigations: Navigating New DOJ Directives - Declinations, Cooperation, and Whistleblower Programs with Mike DeBernardis and Katherine Taylor
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Deputy Assistant Attorney General (DAAG) Bill Rinner’s stated goal for his June 4 speech was to provide insight into how the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, will “handle merger review to ensure procedural fairness...more
In an eight-page Statement joined by the two other sitting Commissioners, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson on May 30, 2025 explained his reasoning for accepting a divestiture remedy proposed by Synopsis, Inc. and Ansys, Inc. to...more
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Agência antitruste inicia ação contra prestadores de serviços de saúde. A autoridade antitruste da Argentina, a Comissão Nacional de Defesa da Concorrência (Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia, CNDC), iniciou uma...more
Agencia antimonopolio toma acción contra proveedores de servicios médicos. El organismo antimonopolio de Argentina, la Comisión Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia (CNDC), está investigando a varias organizaciones de la...more
Antitrust agency brings action against health service providers. Argentina’s antitrust enforcer, the National Commission for Competition Defense (CNDC), has opened an investigation of several health services organizations...more
Gail Slater was confirmed last week as Assistant Attorney General (AAG) for the Antitrust Division; companies should expect a continuation of many Biden-era approaches, with new cases and priorities to advance the Trump...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) is requesting public comment on its proposal to rescind its 2024 Statement of Policy on Bank Merger Transactions (“2024 Policy Statement”) and reinstate its prior Statement...more
Now out: our latest global trends in merger control enforcement report - In this tenth edition of our annual report, we analyze data for 2024 from 26 jurisdictions to reveal the latest trends in global merger control and...more
Sanctions for procedural merger control infringements in 2024 did not meet the lofty heights of previous years. But merging parties should not be complacent. The number of infringement decisions increased. The U.S. and China...more
Regulatory intervention levels are rising. The concerns of antitrust authorities and foreign investment (FDI) regulators are evolving and can be unpredictable. Allocation of merger control execution risk in deal documents...more
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